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2.2.1 Format
Status information is presented by a mark-up notation, similar to XML. The main differences are:
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all braces are removed in the XACLI format
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XACLI does not use end-tags, except for a tag to mark end of the top element
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XACLI does not use indent spaces to present the data structure
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XACLI hides the instance number (item number in XML) of an element if only one instance of a
given element exists
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A status top level element starts with “*s"
Example 2.5 shows XML formatting and XACLI formatting for the same status element, NTP.
Example 2.5
XML:
10.0.0.2
XACLI:
*s NTP (status=Active):
Address: "10.0.0.2"
Port: 123
LastUpdate: "2008-01-01 12:00:00"
LastCorrection: 1
*s/end
NOTE! To write a parser for the XACLI format, the parser must keep track of the levels by counting
white spaces. The indent is increased by two whitespaces for each level.